'Fairytale science': Rather than reviving an extinct species, stop killing them off

I recently became interested in de-extinction science when I saw an article in USA TODAY about a big investment in Australia to bring back the extinct thylacine, often wrongly referred to as "Tasmanian tigers." That led me to reach out to Flinders University's global ecology professor Corey Bradshaw, who has come out against de-extinction efforts.

What started out as a lighthearted chat about an extinct tiger that's not really a tiger turned pretty dark, pretty quickly, as Bradshaw began explaining to me what his extinction research shows for the future of mankind and the planet. 

But before you say to yourself, "I can't hear this today," just wait. All is not (completely) lost. Bradshaw has very specific ideas for what we can do to make things less terrible. And that's definitely worth a try, if not for our generation, then for the next one.